Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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